Tag: Georges Lemaître
Book Excerpt: The Big Bang and the Fine-Tuned Universe
What can we infer about the cause of the universe, about what brought it into being?
Confirming the Big Bang: The Early Decades
Cosmologists have come a long way since Edwin Hubble published that ratty looking plot of galaxy recession velocities versus distance.
Astrophysics and Molecular Genetics with the Parking Brake On
The ancient model of the cosmos, which was the model presupposed by most scientists prior to the mid 20th century, was Steady State.
ID’s Top Six — The Origin of the Universe
In 1927, Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître theorized that the universe began with a single explosion from a densely compacted state.